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"MacGreg him make for maquisha," declared Bela Moshi grimly, as he carefully blacked the foresight of his rifle. "Maquisha" in the Haussa language signifies something more than finished.
Bela Moshi, wearing a broad smile, saluted. "Brass Pot, him head-bone blown inside out," he replied, as cheerfully as only a Haussa can when reporting losses amongst his comrades. "Nimshi Pali, him no good maquisha. Dat all dead, but plenty much Haussa hurt so many."
A man might say, "I've finished eating," for example, and yet in a few hours he will be again satisfying his hunger, but "maquisha" signifies finished in the penultimate sense the final extermination of a certain person or thing. "No, no, Bela Moshi," said Wilmshurst decidedly. "We want MacGreg taken prisoner. That's important.
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